Today's Clips (5/14/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2019 spiked to the highest level in at least 40 years, with a record 2,100 acts of assault, vandalism and harassment against Jews reported across the United States, including 20 incidents reported in North Carolina

CORONAVIRUS

The nation’s largest public university system will stay online, but other colleges are determined to bring back students. The patchwork could look much like the rest of the country.

Many students finishing a school year with online classes in the midst of coronavirus are thinking of taking a year off, or an alternative type of education.

Schools throughout the country are preparing for a financial crisis.

Trump, in attack on Fauci, downplays danger of reopening schools.

He warns against reopening schools too soon.

Xavier University's cancellation of its graduation ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic didn't stop one Tennessee senior from walking across the stage.

The board of visitors of The College of William & Mary has voted to roll back an increase in tuition and mandatory fees for the next school year in response to the coronavirus pandemic

President Vincent Price Price described the changes as necessary to alleviate a loss of revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic, which could reach up to 15% of Duke’s annual operating budget.

IN OTHER NEWS

Liberty University no longer will offer philosophy degrees because of declining enrollment in the undergraduate program, the university announced Tuesday.

TRADES

If physical campuses cannot open, here's how colleges can replicate what makes their in-person experience so valuable, according to the research firm Eduventures.

Vice President Mike Pence held a call Tuesday with leaders of 14 colleges and universities. They were joined by Betsy DeVos, the U.S. secretary of education, and Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, in a discussion about "best practices to get students back to school in the fall," according to a news release from the vice president's office. The

After 26 years in the classroom, a professor was pushed out. Was he a legitimate threat, or just tough?

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